The Real Horror in ‘Haunted’ and ‘Things Heard and Seen’

The supernatural at the service of ideological horrors

Why I Don’t Listen to Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks

Sight vs. aural reading

John Wick is the Inverse Faust

How he gained, rather than sold, his soul

Why I Wear My Grandmother’s Clothes

She’s very frail at age 88. But she still sees us. Can talk to us. Can tell stories from her…

Returning to Many Old Notebooks, Many Old Selves

Metafiction and the endless “meta” of my…

It Sucks to be Lucienne

And other thoughts while watching ‘The Sandman’

My Family in Parallel Universes

On reading Borges’s “The Garden of Forking Paths”

The Unproductive Creator

The importance of absence in the creative process

Cat in the Moonlight

Memories of a memory

Third World Exotic, First World Horror in ‘Nocebo’

Is the film’s sociopolitical message too deliberately played?